2 papers
cs.LG2026
NormGuard: Reward-Preserving Norm Constraints in Flow-Matching Reinforcement Learning
Tianlin Pan, Lianyu Pang, Cheng Da +4
Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves the reward alignment of flow-based generators, but often degrades perceptual quality in ways that are not captured by the reward…
cs.CV2026
MaskAlign: Token-Subset Representation Alignment for Efficient Diffusion Training
Lianyu Pang, Tianlin Pan, Cheng Da +5
Representation alignment with pretrained vision models has recently shown strong potential for accelerating diffusion transformer training. By aligning intermediate diffusion featu…